Birthday Cake Color by Number With a Peeking Giraffe

A giraffe pokes its head and long spotted neck up from behind a big two-tier cake, with a single lit candle balanced on its head. The cake has wavy frosting along the top of each layer, and the bottom tier is decorated with a row of loopy swirls and little scalloped shapes along the base. Behind it, a large number seven stands out against a background cut into many small sections. Every section has a number in it, and the key at the bottom pairs numbers 1 to 8 with colors like yellow, orange, red, blue, green and brown. Try a small group activity where kids first find all the 2s on the frosting and color them orange, then work through the rest of the key one number at a time. It is a nice way to practice number recognition and careful coloring inside the lines.